I had to do this for my homework and only found this website after! I got about 25 words which I was happy with. I also found shortcake I am not sure about it but oh well!

Samuel Thompson, De La Salle School St Helens

Wizards

Luke B, 8D1 Carshalton Boys

Quarry - couldn't see this one already here. Love the game and will do it again but with different totals.

Fergee, Beacon Community College

I found 'glittered' works to 100p

Sylvia Markowska, 7H, Harrytown, Stockport

Sylvia found SPARKLER

Steve Thomas, Hounslow Community Education

Gina from my numeracy class was captivated by this activity and was up to all hours coming up with her list:WholesaleVouchsafeUtensilTractionThirtyTaurusQuadrangleQuarryQuarterNestlingHospitalPringlesFountain

Well done, Gina!

Amy and Oscar Kelly, Holyport

we got starfish it took us a long time but we finaly did it!

Annie, Glasgow

The word 'gobbledegook' = £1. Its actually in the dictionary!

Fergus and Jeremy, British International School, New York

WE found "TOASTY"

Sophie W, Bourne Grammar School

I found 10 words:Elephantscrustswhiskygrumpystrawsmaximizeturkeytowersbeetrootprimary. I'm just amazing at it!

I asolutely positutaly love this site its awesome my pupils love it and they go on it at home I even set it as homework once ^^ hehe I love it !!!!

Mrs Smith, The Leventhorpe School

Ral Onyema in 7Y1 found 'striker'.

Miss Legrove, Sir Graham Balfour

Words worth £1 are Sparkler: Y10 Sir graham balfour

Archimedes maths group, Mornington Primary School

Our word is FOUNTAIN

Miss Yuill, The Kimberley School

My class of Year 10's enjoyed this activity and managed to find 'starfish' which cost 100p.

Year 10- Statistics, Bilericay School

Hi everyoneWe found:HooligansPoundingPostingCarpenter

Vikram Foot ring, Billericay

I found 2 funny ones:scream (as in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah)

and scream as in eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Set 2, Kings College Taunton

We got pounding, plunging, fibre work and sky-fire-bad. This puzzle is venom! Maths rocks!

S Cox, Dereham, Norfolk

This began as a starter for my year 8 class, but they got so into it, it turned into a homework, and between them they found 51 words costing £1 (most of these found by Luke Copping!). Here are a selection: Football Lad, mailboxes, acknowledge, riverbank, crusts, pumpkin, resumes, clockwise, delivery, mirrored, identifies, chimpanzee, apropos, cruising, rewound, fountain, swimmer.

Undeg Steffan, Ruthin, Wales

Loved this one!! Me and my class had so much fun but I won with wizards and "athrawon" which means teachers in welsh.

George's maths club, Taunton School

George Wayman wanted me to tell you that he found Presley.

James O, St Patricks

Forest GreenToiletsTurkey

Jack Robinson/Reece Matthews, Bruntcliffe

BASSLINES

Dave Harwood, Swansea

Toilets, telephone and starfish.

Miss Van Der Veen, Victoria Park State School

This is a good puzzel, but would be better if you use dollars as well as pounds.

Desmond Doyle, Liverpool, England

Sparklers, elvis and numeracy add to 100.

Laura, Homeschool

'Friendlier' After re-working it out about 10 times, I finally got it!

Year 8, Clevedon School

We found loads-WednesdayTurkeyToiletSparklerRobin HoodPringlesStarfishAnd more!!!! Too many to type!!Cat Wynn is one also!!

9p2y, Prince Henry's High School, Evesham

We found RIVERBANK and SQUARES.

9/10 Ge Maths - Fiordland College, Te Anau, New Zealand

PumpkinSasha AlexanderJono HayestTrizzaLots of fun.

Year 8, MSJ

We found this starter difficult but the class were very enthusiastic about trying to work it out!

Mrs P Cain, Chellaston School Derby

We spent the time trying to think of firework related words....the only one apart from SPARKLER we came up with was ROMAN CANDLE.Once we had looked at other schools entries it made the task easier but we persevered with our Firework theme!!!Good fun!Year 10Chellaston SchoolDerby.

M Asker, Y6 St James

A pupil from St James Middle got WATSUP = 100!!

Vanessa Sarpong, Connaught School For Girls

"squares" and "collecting" from Vanessa.

Rebecca, Dunfermline High School

We found SHORTCAKE.

Matt Peters, Filsham Valley School

I found the word "squares".

The Best Maths Group Ever (8cd/m2), King Alfred's College OXON

We found these wordsWholesaleVouchsafeUtensilTractionThirtyTaurusQuadrangleQuarryQuarterNestlingHospitalPringlesFountainstarfish sparklerromancandlewednesdayattitudetowertelephonetoilets hooligansfountainpoundingpostingwe found 25 words and this starter was really fun.

Mrs Smith, Year 8 Class At KGGS

Hannah Grain found TURKEY and Anya Faulkner found PROBLEMS.

Penny Harris, The Market Weighton School

Seashells.

A O'hagan, Class 3G Holyrood Sec Glasgow

The words we found are romancandle,sparkler,pumpkin,turkey and caitlynmc!

Allan Haney, Holyrood Sec Glasgow

Fountain!

Jay Vachhani, Durrington High School

Pumpkin.

Amy Holden, Radcliffe Riverside High

From radcliffe riverside we found "riverside" by Tom Bolton"sparkler" by Amy Holden and Dom Porter"explodes" by Danielle Broderick.

MSJ, Y10

Martin Smith came up with personal, Martin love maths.

David Payne, St Anne's Catholic School, Southampton

As an extension can you find letters whose values multiply to make 100 or any other given value?My only answer so far is BABY (2 x 1 x 2 x 25).

Rebecca found 40! as wel as the ones we found in class.tootingattitudedisciplinepostingjostlesclockwisearrivalscrustscoursesborrowedpoundingpreventproblemsraincoatsprofilesrestoresevicestelephonestressstatusbedazzlesstrawsprinterarrestelephantsaddressingkeyboardshospitalexplainsmotortwistedthirtystoolssessionssourcestowersupsetswhistledswimmerwriting.

Mr McQuade, John Paul Academy

Sparkler, Telephone, Elephants and A New Moon were our attempts.Class S3/1 at John Paul Academy, Glasgow.

Jessica Mcdonald, Prenton High For Girls

Happyfaces.

Year 8, Ecclesbourne School

MongolianBuzzyStarfishA creature that lives in the bottom of lakes on the Mongolian Plain and makes a strange bee like noise.

Samba, Gambia

We found sparkla.

Lewis, David Young Community Academy

Lewis found tooting! for £1.

7x3, Murray Park, Derby

Kyle has found Sparkler. James found Wednesday. We loved this!!!

JSD 6EM, The Netherlands

We found Afghanistan, Turkey and starfish. Good activity and it has gone on much longer than needed!!!

Mrs Boussouara's class just loved this puzzle.It was supposed to be a starter but we kept going for the whole period!

2m1, Lochend Community High School

2m1 came up withexplodessparklerfountainshooterhooliganshospital.

Jake S, Illinois

We found the word MATHSTAR.

CSS, CSS

Uzzy found QuarryLMJ discovered 'Sausage Care'TNH found 'Words Bar'There were others, but they were a touch poor.

K Mackie, Forfar Academy, Scotland

Ryan is the only person in my class to have found a word on his own.He had 'problems' while the rest of the class had problems finding words...

Cheyenne, Gloucester

I can up with My name and my second name which was 99 points and I also came u with wednesday and elephant.

Year 7 Set 1, Northwood School

We found television,pringles,toilets.

Lizzie Lucas, Holcombe Brook Y5

I found exactiy = 100hospital= 100exerlentay= 100.

Mrs Boyle, Our Lady's P.S

We loved this-great way to get the brain going! Caitlin gotWHOLESALEIsn't she clever!!!Mrs Boyle and girlsOur Lady's P.S Belfast.

7c4, Christ The King

'Maddie Nikita' found that her name added up to 100!

Shakil, Aliya

We found elephant, hospital, Wednesday, Excellent, Squares and towers it was great fun working these out and I would give this a 4.

Philip Bam, Tobermory

Australia = 100p.

H Hand,

My class LOVED this activity!!!!!!

Bob Turnip, Torphecan

Smirnoff works!!! Oooosh!

Natasha, Brockington College

I found that "explodes" come to £1.

Maths Set 1, Alban Church Of England Academy

In keeping with the topic we found "Sparkler".

H.Hand, George Watson's

Caitlin from P5L found "mummify".

Elodie, 6S

We found as a class lightning, sparkler, explodes, firework and wizards!

Kirsty Brown, Scotish Borders

I did my name and it came up with 102, I was so close.

Alasdair, Pairc School, Isle Of Lewis

I found sparkler.

5.1 Maths Group, Eastbourne

My very clever Year 5 Class also found Sparkler.

Lauren, Shenfield High School

Lightning.

Prince Cochrane, 10N

Profiles!!! It was very very very fun :).

Emma Randall And Nadia Abdullah, 9N And 9E

Squares!!!! from Miss. Loi's year 9 class at Woodbridge High School,And Woodridge!!! close to our school name. We found this very very very fun!!!!!

Woodbridge High School, Year 11

A Faiyaz Ahmed by Faiyaz.Turkey by Nicole Samuels and Aylin Keles and Jide Tijani.Wondeful by Rory McGowan.All in Miss. Loi's maths class.

Year 6, St Chrysostoms CE Primary School

We really enjoyed this activity! It made us think!

Primary 7, Blackridge

Katie found that Numeracy is equal to £1. Amy checked her answer and we agree.We enjoyed this challenge and found it links to a similar task in our spelling homework.We used our problem solving skills, our literacy skills (spelling) and our mental maths skills.

Seemal, Home

I found this really easy and I did it at home the word I got was: Elephants.

Paul Gray, Derby

I did a very similar starter, but asked my class to come up with words worth 50 points. I kept on emphasising that the answer was easy, much to the dismay of my class...When the penny dropped and they realised that the answer really was EASY (E = 5, A = 1, S = 19, Y = 25, EASY = 50) they loved it!!

Melmac, Church Stretton School

SPARKLERBOOM!

Pearce Richards, Helston CC

Scouser.

Mr. Coles, Year 9

Our words are:"Yalo Swag", which Tom swears blind is a real word"Christin" ~ which is a name?"Thirty" ~ by Kate.

Chris Robinson, NIS

Some words room 4 at Newlands Intermediate School in wellington new Zealand found were:Swimmer, shadowclan, shadowing and lightning.We enjoyed this activity.

Alicia, Church Stretton School

Hi,Here at our super amazing school we found ONE word:STANDARDSWe are well pleased with this.We rule.

9A1, Baylis Court School, Slough

We found monopol its a place in poland.

Mr Astley, Pontypridd

Lia Ferguson from Pontypridd - sparkler.

Cass 1/1, Alness Academy, Scotland

We found Kimberley.

Olivia Sharp, Haverhill

Sparkler is one and elephant.

Mr Astley, Pontypridd

Jordan Beasley loved this challenge. He found 'totally' in a Pontypridd record time of 32 seconds!!!

Lauren And Abbi, The Park School

Lauren A Fear and Abi Wheaton both have 100 for their names.

Mrs Moore, Chiltern Hills Academy

We found "sparkler".

Caroline, Turton

Have passed this idea on to colleagues in other departments looking for 'numeracy' ideas. they intend to adapt it for key words.

Phoebe, Ridgeway School

I found Elephants,attitude,clockwise,telephone,keyboards andstress. (I loved this exercise my teacher was doing it at school and set it for homework to find as many words as you could!).

Hazlehead, Aberdeen

Hazlehead Academy 1CA found Wednesday and Burnett (Jack's surname!).

Tambo, Denny High School

Tambo says Fountain for £1 and won a football pencil (Higher Maths)!!!!

How did you use this starter? Can you suggest
how teachers could present or develop this resource? Do you have any comments? It is always useful to receive
feedback and helps make this free resource even more useful for Maths teachers anywhere in the world.Click here to enter your comments.

If you don't have the time to provide feedback we'd really appreciate it if you
could give this page a score! We are constantly improving and adding to these
starters so it would be really helpful to know which ones are most useful. Simply
click on a button below:

Excellent, I would like to see more like this
Good, achieved the results I required
Satisfactory
Didn't really capture the interest of the students
Not for me! I wouldn't use this type of activity.

Answers

See the comments above for many answers.

Test your words here:

Your access to the majority of the Transum resources continues to be free but you can help support the continued growth of the website by doing your Amazon shopping using the links on this page. Below is an Amazon search box and some items chosen and recommended by Transum Mathematics to get you started.

Hello World

You are buying a (driverless) car. One vehicle is programmed to save as many lives as possible in a collision. Another promises to prioritize the lives of its passengers. Which do you choose?

Welcome to the age of the algorithm, the story of a not-too-distant future where machines rule supreme, making important decisions – in healthcare, transport, finance, security, what we watch, where we go even who we send to prison. So how much should we rely on them? What kind of future do we want?

Hannah Fry takes us on a tour of the good, the bad and the downright ugly of the algorithms that surround us. In Hello World she lifts the lid on their inner workings, demonstrates their power, exposes their limitations, and examines whether they really are an improvement on the humans they are replacing. more...

Teacher, do your students have
access to computers?Do they have iPads or Laptops in Lessons?

Whether your students each have a TabletPC, a Surface or a Mac,
this activity lends itself to eLearning (Engaged Learning).